99 Quotes by Mary MacLane

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

I live an immoral life. It is immoral because it is deadly futile.

Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another woman?

When I think of the exquisite love and sympathy which might be between a mother and daughter, I feel myself defrauded of a beautiful thing rightfully mine, in a world where for me such things are pitiably few.

…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.

But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.

And always while I am still young, there is that dim light, the Future. But it is indeed a dim, dim light, and ofttimes there’s a treachery in it.

It is to be hoped you are not ‘intellectual,’ which is an unpardonable trait